On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 8:52 AM Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel <
freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Jul 2023, tom ehlert via Freedos-devel wrote:
>
> >
> >> ISTM that all the other graphical shells in FreeDOS are even less
> >> useful than GEM, and it would be no loss to remove them... but adding
> >> GEOS would be a win.
> >
> > in what way is GEOS even related to FreeDOS which runs on PC's?
> >
> > unless wikipedia has it completely wrong GEOS needs 6502 (commodore c42,
> AppleII etc)
> > computers.
> >
> > Tom
>
> There was a "PC-GEOS".  Has a kinda Win9x look in later versions.
>
> -uso.


Correct.  The source is available here -
https://github.com/bluewaysw/pcgeos

At various times, various owners, developers, and embedders have called it
PC/GEOS, GeoWorks, Ensemble, NewDeal Office, Breadbox Ensemble.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(16-bit_operating_system)#GeoWorks_Ensemble

Screenshots of various versions can be seen here
http://toastytech.com/guis/indexgeos.html
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